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stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic malaise in europe, japan and the u.s. all taking its toll. and obama and boehner meet face-to-face as the clock ticks towards the fiscal cliff. >>> china's growth has recently improved. may well be on track to surpass beijing's 7.5% gdp target for the year. but november's softer than expected trade data highlights the vulnerability to riskes from abroad. joining us more now is eunice eune. how likely is it that we see china hit or surpass these growth targets given the figures showed us? >> well, people are growing concerned abou
stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic...
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joining us is diana fowl. diana, thanks for joining us. how big is the gap between what employees are looking for for entry level staff and the skills that the current graduates are offering? >> the gap is tremendous. it's a real tragedy. you mentioned the very high youth unemployment numbers, but 75 million youths today and eight youths, half of youths in the middle east and half of youths in greece and others, that 75 million can be contrasted to the shortage of workers for medium and high skill jobs which we establishment by 2020 could reach 85 million. so we have a paradox of too many jobs, too many vacancies and, therefore, an education and unemployment system that is not working correctly. unfortunately not enough data on this matter is available. so our studies, 100 case studies and surveys 8,000 participants in the system across nine countries tries to provide a fact base. and the news is not wonderful. what we learned is that the icip really operate in the system. they participate in parallel universes, if you look. for example, y
joining us is diana fowl. diana, thanks for joining us. how big is the gap between what employees are looking for for entry level staff and the skills that the current graduates are offering? >> the gap is tremendous. it's a real tragedy. you mentioned the very high youth unemployment numbers, but 75 million youths today and eight youths, half of youths in the middle east and half of youths in greece and others, that 75 million can be contrasted to the shortage of workers for medium and...
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joining us, managing director. what do you make of inditex. >> i think with the share price performance you've seen for that, up almost 70%, almost nothing would please the market. the results are a league of its own. 7% like -- remember, the business is still majority in spain, italy, portugal, greece, et cetera. over 50% of sales. there 7% like for like. margins rising. it is a special company. >> taking a big -- are they taking a chunk of market share, as well? >> absolutely. i think it goes back to the strengths of its model. i think more than anyone else they listen to the consumer. this is fast fashion taken to the extreme. there's something new in the stores every two weeks. there's a reason to keep going every two weeks. they get feedback from the store managers quickly on what's working, what's not working. go back to the production people, say we need this more, we need less of this. >> the supply chain must be -- where are they making this stuff? how are they able to get it into the store so quick three
joining us, managing director. what do you make of inditex. >> i think with the share price performance you've seen for that, up almost 70%, almost nothing would please the market. the results are a league of its own. 7% like -- remember, the business is still majority in spain, italy, portugal, greece, et cetera. over 50% of sales. there 7% like for like. margins rising. it is a special company. >> taking a big -- are they taking a chunk of market share, as well? >>...
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joining us is the chief economist at diawa capital markets. thanks for joining us. at what sort of pace do you think this leadership might be able to implement their reforms, their switch to domestic demand? will they go at the same pace as the previous administration? >> i would say the pace would be faster. i would say most people are surprised by how fast the new leaders actually took actions. you know, mr. shi and the shenzhen a few weeks ago and he made et very clear that he's going to take the path since 1978. so basically, the new leader is ready for reforms, for changing the growth pattern for china's economy. so i think it's going to be very fast. but on the other hand, the new leaders mentioned about the challenges, the difficulties of these reforms. i think everybody understands what it means. so i think the launch of these reforms, off this economic growth model will be prequick. but in terms of the completion, i think it's going to be quite prolonged, i think. >> yeah. and how much difficulty are they going to have as they change policy dealing with the
joining us is the chief economist at diawa capital markets. thanks for joining us. at what sort of pace do you think this leadership might be able to implement their reforms, their switch to domestic demand? will they go at the same pace as the previous administration? >> i would say the pace would be faster. i would say most people are surprised by how fast the new leaders actually took actions. you know, mr. shi and the shenzhen a few weeks ago and he made et very clear that he's going...
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e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us here @@cnbcwex. >>> going, going gone. depleting resources isn't just a concern for environmentalists but for the community, their. as finite materials become scarer and prices inch upwards, some companies have to look at alternatives. the resource crunch may be around the corner. joining us for more is tom delay, chief executive of the carbon trust. tom, welcome. >> good morning. >> you've been trying to draw attention to this issue. how do we know beyond this general sense of resource depletion just how unprepared companies are for this transition? >> well, we advise governments and businesses around the world, particularly leading organizations on resource efficiency and carbon reduction. we wanted to see whether there was a broader passion here and whether other organizations were engaged in the same way as leading organizations. we did market research. we looked into almost 500 executive opinions on essentially resource efficiency, resource crunch, what they were doing -- >> what do you mean resource? what kind of res
e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us here @@cnbcwex. >>> going, going gone. depleting resources isn't just a concern for environmentalists but for the community, their. as finite materials become scarer and prices inch upwards, some companies have to look at alternatives. the resource crunch may be around the corner. joining us for more is tom delay, chief executive of the carbon trust. tom, welcome. >> good morning. >> you've been trying to draw attention to this issue....